Tornadoes Quotes - Page 4

• The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Taken, Fire, Two

  William Least Heat-Moon (2014). “PrairyErth: A Deep Map”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Guy, Waiting

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass.

  Pharrell Williams

  Disappointment, Smart, Eye

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened.

  Rick Riordan

  Congratulations, Earthquakes, Snakes

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.9, Penguin UK

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take you up like a house of cards in a tornado, leaving destruction in its wake. Or it can let you alone because you've built a stone wall against it, set out the armed guards to keep it from touching you. The real trick is not to let it in, but to hold on. To understand that the heart is as wide and vast as the universe, but that we come to know it best from here, this place is gravity and stability, where out feet can still touch ground.

  Deb Caletti

  Beautiful, Wall, Real

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen.

  Dana Gould

  Winning, People, Praying

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jul 13, 2013

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Rip, Clouds, Leaving

  Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Running With Scissors”, p.185, Atlantic Books Ltd

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• They did a lot of cleaning in their house, which I considered to be a sign of immoral parenting. The job of parents, as I saw it, was to watch television and step into a child's life only when absolutely necessary, like in the event of a tornado or a potential kidnapping.

  Haven Kimmel

  Jobs, Children, House

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.111, Broadway Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive. You can be in an earthquake, fire, volcanic eruption, tornado, what you will-and survive. But if your plane crashes, you do not survive. And I say the heck with it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Funny, Airplane, Fire

  11 Copy quote

• Jack came whirling in like a little gay tornado with Duchess following him.

  P. C. Cast

  Gay, Littles, Duchess

  4 Copy quote

• There's more than one way between your world and ours. There's the changeling road, and there's the Ravishing, and there's those that Stumble through a gap in the hedgerows or a mushroom ring or a tornado or a wardrobe full of winter coats.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Winter, Mushrooms, World

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.214, Macmillan

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Clouds, Storm, World

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girl's mouth!

  Gemma Halliday

  Girl, Cheating, Fall

  6 Copy quote

• What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Rocks, Shelter

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2014). “Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.

  John Gordon Sinclair

  Spring, Community, Has Beens

  5 Copy quote

• I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is holding onto the other end and, although it cannot spare me this storm, it will not let me be lost while I regain my strength. It is enough.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Long, Storm, Kites

  Karen Marie Moning (2009). “Dreamfever: Fever Series”, p.42, Delacorte Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the medias all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

  Fire, Weather, America

  18 Copy quote

• Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.

  Ilona Andrews

  Crazy, Earthquakes, Natural

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.89, Penguin

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.

  Michael Chabon

  Fire, Weather, Rust

  8 Copy quote

• It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado.

  Tammara Webber

  Loss, Cities, Doubt

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.915, Tammara Webber

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

  Mary McCarthy

  History, House, Nonchalance

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . . Do I choose the upbeat rather than the downer ending because I know it will score better at the preview? Can the idea be sold in a single sentence? Can it compete with space aliens and tornadoes and missions impossible?

  Edward Zwick

  Ideas, Space, Choices

  4 Copy quote

• He [Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.

  Miriam Makeba

  Teacher, Advice, Trying

  "The long goodbye". Interview with Robin Denselow, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2008.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.

  Kip Thorne

  Ocean, Air, Space

  7 Copy quote

• Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or heal our scars. It can be the ghost that haunts us, or the best friend who reads our every thought. Love may arrive like an angel of mercy, a fairy with raven wings or a hairy beast that will tear us apart limb from limb, kill and savor us down to the bones.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Healing, Angel, Wings

  22 Copy quote